Kindred Spirits

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

In this chapter, the author shares the wisdom and wit of some extraordinary people, the “kindred spirits,” as well as the lessons he has learned from each of them, such as Tony Butler, who made his home in the tunnels of the New York City subway; the photographer Margaret Morton, who took pictures of the structures where many homeless people live in the tunnels and under the bridges of Manhattan; Ethel Mohamed, a seamstress who began to embroider her memories after the death of her Lebanese husband; Moishe Sacks, a retired baker and the unofficial rabbi of the Intervale Jewish Center in the South Bronx; Kewulay Kamara, from whom he learned about how an ancient mythology can shape a way of life far from its indigenous roots; former medicine show doc Fred Bloodgood; the young subway graffiti writer Skeme; and Mae Noell, from whom he learned about publishing, finding your voice, and sticking to your guns. The author concludes by recounting some wonderful expressions he has picked up from his travels.

scholarly journals Battling in the Bronx: Social Choreography and Outlaw Culture Among Early Hip-Hop Streetdancers in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imani Kai Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Life Lessons ◽  
Social Choreography ◽  
The Impact

This article closely examines oral histories of b-boys Aby and Kwikstep, b-girl Baby Love, and poppers Cartoon and Wiggles, and the social choreography necessary to navigate the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s that has an indelible link to four core battling principles as articulated by 1970s b-boy Trac2: survivalism, strategizing, nomadism, and illusionism. By comparing and contrasting foundational elements of battling techniques with life lessons about growing up in the Bronx, the comparison signals the impact of “outlaw culture” within hip-hop, and the counterdominant sensibilities taught in battle cyphers.

Direct observation of neighborhood stressors and environmental justice in the South Bronx, New York City

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Maroko ◽  
Rachael Weiss Riley ◽  
Megan Reed ◽  
Mallesha Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
York City ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

Strayed Cattle

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-103
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Price
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
York City ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Pastoral Tradition ◽  
Vantage Points

Whitman’s war writings have been criticized on the grounds that he turns to pastoralism to justify the violence of the Civil War. Whitman was in fact intrigued by the pastoral tradition stretching from Virgil forward. Rather than being in thrall to arcadian fantasies, Whitman instead “sees through” (in both senses) pastoralism. His writings avoid romantic claptrap that serves to justify wartime violence. He experienced the war from the vantage points of New York City and Washington, DC, and he shows no yearning for an idyllic rural retreat, nor does he indulge in nostalgia for a lost way of life. Pastoralism often involves the care of cattle, and this chapter probes the ties between African Americans, cattle, and an anti-pastoral tradition.

The Information Needs of Homeless Library Patrons in New York City

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gali Yemini–Halevi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Field Study ◽  
York City ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Reference Areas

Field study discovered some information needs of homeless people visiting public libraries in New York. During summer 2006, reference areas of New York public libraries were observed unobtrusively to track homeless patrons’ use of library resources and services. Findings include the use of resources and services by homeless patrons groups.Une étude de terrain révèle certains besoins informationnels des itinérants visitant les bibliothèques publiques de New York. Pendant l’été 2006, les services de références des bibliothèques publiques de New York ont été observés de manière non obstructive afin de connaître les ressources et les services des bibliothèques utilisés par les itinérants. Les résultats incluent l’utilisation des ressources et des services par les groupes d’usagers itinérants. 

Sex and the Revanchist City: Zoning out Pornography in New York

10.1068/d10s ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Adler Papayanis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Sexually Explicit

This paper is an investigation of the social, economic, legal, and cultural factors underlying the move, in New York City, to regulate the sale of pornographic materials through the promulgation of zoning laws. The campaign to zone out pornography, a point of solidarity around which a number of disparate and often hostile interest groups have rallied in order to reclaim public space in the name of community (as though the term itself were transparent and monovocal) is linked to both gentrification and the socioeconomic dynamics underlying the emergence of what Neil Smith has characterized as the revanchist city. ‘Quality of life’ issues stand euphemistically for the domestication and sanitization of an urban landscape whose perceived unruliness is emblematized not only by the presence of large numbers of homeless people, but also by the outré display of sexually explicit imagery associated with XXX-rated businesses. By focusing on the discursive strategies that seek to identify sex shops with so-called ‘secondary impacts’ such as increased crime and decreasing property values, I aim to uncover the social biases and economic motivations that work to shape the urban landscape. I argue that the move to zone out pornography in New York City is imbricated within larger spatial practices that operate both to maximize the productivity of social space and to reproduce the social values of the majority.

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